Benjamin Rush Pearson
Today, January 12th, would be Madison Pearson’s birthday. While researching the family tree a couple of nights ago, I was taken to the Virginia Military Institutes website. I was fortunate enough to stumble upon a photo of the VMI graduating class of 1871 . I had known that our great grandfather Benjamin Rush Pearson had attended VMI along with his Brother William. In this photo I found William Fletcher Pearson who was readily identifiable and Benjamin R Pearson who was listed as being in the grouping but I could not be certain of which of the many photos was him. I e-mailedthe VMI archives department and they readily identified him.
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Born in 1849 Benjamin Rush Pearson was a prominent doctor in Montgomery. He graduated from Virginia Military Institute in the summer of 1871. This was the year after General Robert E Lee passed away in Lexington VA. There is a
picture I am working on getting of the graduating class of 1871 in Robert E Lee's funeral procession.
Benjamin Rush Pearson died March 1906 from tuberculosis and is now buried in Montgomery AL.
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posted by George Campbell at 9:49 PM
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Benjamin R. Rush graduated in March 1881 from the Medical College of Alabama at Mobile having been examined in the branches of medicine and surgery.
I find it interesting that our great grandfather's namesake Benjamin Rush was also a doctor.
Benjamin Rush was one of the founding fathers of the American Republic, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, and an eminent physician.He was also an early opponent of slavery.
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